Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Measure of Belonging | 2020 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| An Isolated Incident | 2014 | Buy |
| Unmarriageable | 2019 | Buy |
Soniah Kamal is a Pakistani American novelist whose work explores identity, culture, and belonging. Her debut, An Isolated Incident (2014), established her voice, but it was Unmarriageable (2019) that brought wider attention. The novel reimagines Pride and Prejudice in modern-day Pakistan, translating the Bennet family’s marriage anxieties into a culture where similar pressures carry different weight. Kamal’s retelling was praised for treating its source material with both respect and fresh perspective.
She also edited A Measure of Belonging (2020), an anthology that collected stories about the immigrant experience and cultural displacement. Kamal’s writing draws on her own background growing up in Pakistan and living in the United States, and her fiction focuses on the space between cultures rather than choosing one over the other.